# Failure management
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|  GAMEREL03: How do you persist game state during infrastructure disruptions?  | 
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 As your game infrastructure experiences various operational events over time, your game's architecture should be designed to maintain continuity for player experiences and preserve game state during infrastructure events. To handle these events, implement monitoring, graceful shutdowns, and state persistence mechanisms to verify smooth gameplay experiences for your players. 

**Topics**
+ [GAMEREL03-BP01 Monitor game server disruptions, and use the data to improve hosting architecture to achieve reliability goals](gamerel03-bp01.md)
+ [GAMEREL03-BP02 Implement loose coupling of game features to handle failures with minimal impact to player experience](gamerel03-bp02.md)
+ [GAMEREL03-BP03 Monitor infrastructure events over time to measure impact on player behavior](gamerel03-bp03.md)